Climate twins of Cottage Grove, MN
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Cottage Grove's. Each "twin" must be at least 140 miles away to avoid trivial near-neighbor matches. Similarity is computed across all 24 monthly metrics (12 average temperatures + 12 average precipitations), normalized so temperature and precipitation contribute equally.
Side-by-side: Cottage Grove vs its climate twin
Top match: Mountain Lake, MN
| Month | Cottage Grove | Mountain Lake | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 24.1°F | 5.7°F | 0.90 in | 25.3°F | 8.0°F | 0.89 in |
| February | 29.0°F | 8.7°F | 0.91 in | 30.3°F | 11.7°F | 0.83 in |
| March | 41.1°F | 21.8°F | 1.78 in | 42.7°F | 24.0°F | 1.76 in |
| April | 56.4°F | 35.7°F | 3.10 in | 58.0°F | 35.6°F | 3.21 in |
| May | 68.6°F | 47.8°F | 4.33 in | 70.5°F | 48.3°F | 4.48 in |
| June | 78.8°F | 58.6°F | 4.94 in | 80.5°F | 59.4°F | 4.73 in |
| July | 83.0°F | 63.3°F | 4.37 in | 84.3°F | 63.4°F | 3.93 in |
| August | 80.9°F | 61.3°F | 4.23 in | 81.4°F | 60.7°F | 3.69 in |
| September | 73.4°F | 53.1°F | 3.21 in | 75.0°F | 52.0°F | 3.20 in |
| October | 59.4°F | 40.0°F | 2.61 in | 60.7°F | 38.6°F | 2.45 in |
| November | 43.0°F | 26.6°F | 1.72 in | 43.6°F | 25.3°F | 1.50 in |
| December | 29.7°F | 13.7°F | 1.23 in | 30.4°F | 13.8°F | 1.07 in |
Cities that consider Cottage Grove their climate twin
These US cities have Cottage Grove in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Cottage Grove would feel familiar.
- Windom, MN (ranks Cottage Grove #2)
- Bingham Lake, MN (ranks Cottage Grove #2)
- Jeffers, MN (ranks Cottage Grove #2)
- Mountain Lake, MN (ranks Cottage Grove #2)
- Wilder, MN (ranks Cottage Grove #2)
- Nemaha, IA (ranks Cottage Grove #2)
- Auburn, IA (ranks Cottage Grove #2)
- Wall Lake, IA (ranks Cottage Grove #2)
How this is computed
Each city is represented by a 24-dimensional vector: 12 monthly average temperatures and 12 monthly average precipitations. Each dimension is z-score normalized across the population of US cities, so that temperature variance and precipitation variance contribute proportionally. Distance between cities is Euclidean. We filter out cities within 2° latitude/longitude (~140 miles) so that "twins" mean climatically similar but geographically distinct — not just the neighboring town. Full methodology →